So, while I'm putting together the last few things I need to take to PAX, I realized I forgot to mention something: ten years ago yesterday, I started my blog at WWdN*. Ten years ago today, Metafilter declared that it was "lame,"** and most of the Internet was really shitty to me about the whole...

They've just disbanded - like every good thing soon as I discover it! - but Futuristic Retro Champions were the best new band in Scotland for a while... http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/love-and-lemonade/id426887893
Try Speak To Me, then May The Forth or DIY Lovesong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MOQJ9Vmvw8 :-(sob)-:

My brother has been making these cool time lapse videos of life on his ranch in Montana. In a recent video, he used music that I instantly loved ... but he didn't say who it was. Luckily for me, I live in the future, so I fired up Shazam on my Android, let it do its thing, and in less than a min...

This was originally written in May of last year, just after I watched the space shuttle Atlantis blast off into orbit. On the anniversary of the Challenger disaster, I thought it was worth reprinting: On January 28, 1986, I was home from school with the flu. I remember that, no matter what I di...

Got a Kindle from Santa, and decided it could only properly be initiated with a full price, legal copy of Just A Geek. Finished it in 2-3 days. Don't regret a penny or a minute of that. Just sorry I couldn't get Dancing Barefoot too.

This is one of the scariest things I've ever done: I'm releasing a short collection of short fiction, called The Day After and Other Stories. Last year, I collected a few short stories I'd written and sold them as a chapbook at PAX. It was a scary thing for me to do, because while I feel confide...

Last night, I was supposed to perform in the Thrilling Adventure Hour at Largo with a bunch of my friends, and a bunch of people who I really admire. Unfortunately, the sinus infection I was fighting all week had other plans, so I stayed home and rested on the couch with a screening of Repo Man....